Specializing in private custom luxury travel, Artisans of Leisure is offering 12 new exclusive tours in 2016 with a culinary focus. Each of these private tours can be scheduled throughout the year with departure dates that suit the traveler. Need a few highlights to whet your appetite? The 12-day Culinary Tour of Japan includes a private tea ceremony, visits to a miso factory and sea salt producer, a tour of a sake brewery and food tours of Tokyo and Kyoto that include Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji Fish Market.

The seven-day Food & Wine of Austria includes top vineyards in the Wachau and Burgenland regions, a private cooking lesson making Austrian specialties, visits to the food stalls in Vienna’s Naschmarkt and a traditional heuriger (wine tavern) in the hills outside the city — along with plenty of coffee and pastries at Vienna’s best cafés.

During the nine-day Food & Wine of Portugal, guests enjoy a Port wine tasting in Porto, pastry tastings in Lisbon and Sintra, tours of the Alentejo region’s olive oil farms, private winery tours and tastings at noted wineries in the Douro Valley, a chef-led cooking session at a seaside manor in Cascais and a tour of a cheese-making farm in Setubal. Other tour destinations include the 11-day Culinary Tour of Mexico, 16-day Flavors of Southeast Asia, 12-day France for Foodies, 10-day Culinary Tour of Greece & Turkey, 10-day Morocco for Foodies, nine-day Culinary Tour of Israel, 13-day Culinary Tour of India and 11-day Food & Wine Tour of Italy.